The Nutrition Coalition worked hard throughout the 2020 Guidelines process to encourage a more rigorous scientific process, in order to ensure that the Guidelines are trustworthy and evidence-based.
What are the Guidelines and why are they so important? See our primer on this here.
Here is the recent history showing that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, the federal agencies that co-issue the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, have consistently and willfully ignored the large body of scientific literature on low-carbohydrate diets.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Conducts First-Ever Peer-Review of Guidelines and Concludes Reform is Needed “in Order for Guidelines to Be Credible”
Dietary Guidelines Fail to Meet Basic Standards for Reviews of the Science
See our scorecard on how USDA has responded (or not) to the recommendations by the National Academies of Sciences
Dietary Guidelines Have Historically Excluded Vast Majority of Rigorous Evidence on Diet and Health
What did the National Academies mean when it told USDA to upgrade its reviews of the science?
